Killing the Count – Al Jazeera Two Part Documentary

The story of Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden and how he rescued concentration camp inmates from Germany during WWII.

Al Jazeera’s two-part documentary Killing the Count examines the eventful life of Count Folke Bernadotte, head of the Swedish Red Cross and a leading figure in the rescue of thousands of concentration camp prisoners in World War II.

Count Folke was appointed as UN Mediator in the first Arab-Israeli war, shortly before he was assassinated by Zionist extremists in 1948.